What Canadian is asking for this? Anybody? Wow... Gross.
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I don't like this at all. I've supported what Carney has been doing up this this point, but not on this. Enough people need to sound of against this and get him to back off.
Calgary airport is a master class in fucking this up. They removed the seating from the gates and waited more than a year to install water-fountains, hoping people would buy drinks and spend their time shopping.
Privatization does not improve these types of services.
When has privatization ever cut costs in the long run?
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I thought they were already privatized what with the "Airport Improvement Fee," "Airport landing fee," and "Air traveller security charge" that our local grass airstrip doesn't have.
The thought of privatization makes me suspect what is already bad may out to be worse for consumers. Privatization only works where there is competition. I don't see much competition at Fort McMurray International Airport, nor Abbotsford International Airport, among many others. .
Here we fucking go. We are now fully in the hands of a trickle down asshole who is going to sell our public goods based on the lie that the private sector is fundamentally more efficient. And the worst part is better than half the Liberal voters will clap like seals as long as the guy doing Reaganomics is wearing their jersey.
However, a senior government official, not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that the potential sale of federal assets like airports is a way of financing the new wealth fund, a point that Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, in an interview with CBC after tabling the spring update, confirmed.
Oh my god. So our "sovereign wealth fund" which is definitely named to steal a bit of the shine off the wildly successful Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, is actually the exact opposite of that fund. Where the Norwegian model used profits from nationalized industry to create an investment fund it could put towards the national interest, we are creating a fund where we sell off public assets to create a pool of money we can shovel into private interests.
He's still better than ppsmol, and the NDP have a lot of reorganizing to do and have no chance of forming a government and that's just the sad reality. I'm disappointed in Carney, this isn't what they ran on and he has no mandate as far as i'm concerned. They are taking advantage of the peril we are in with Trump, every disaster is an opportunity with these guys.
Privative air and personal motor vehicles; nationalize rail, transit, and micromobility.
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